Full time
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
Digital media is central to our engagement with public information, news, government services, healthcare, finance, education, culture and entertainment, and facilitates communication and social interaction. Ensuring accessibility to digital media for all is therefore crucial. However, accessibility can be difficult to achieve because engaging with digital media often involves complex language-based and/or multimodal interactions that require all senses. This becomes more difficult when a modality or language a user understands is not available or accessible. To bridge this gap, different forms of translation are employed, either across different modalities, by translating speech into subtitles or sign language, standard text into a simpler version or visual content into a verbal description, or across languages, e.g., translating into a minority language. With the increase in digital content, accessibility needs cannot be met by human resources alone. The ADA network will...

